TY - JOUR
T1 - Strong field dependence of the fine structure constant
AU - Chodos, Alan
AU - Owen, David A.
AU - Sommerfield, Charles M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Fig. 3. Couplingc onstanvt ersuse xternafli eld \[in (MeV)2\],f or the caseF = 0. For very smalle xternafli eld (which cannotb eseen on the scaleo f this graph) a (E)/oe < 1, as one would expect(. See text.) The work of Alan Chodos and Charles Sommer-field was partly supported by US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76ER03075.
PY - 1988/10/6
Y1 - 1988/10/6
N2 - The fine structure constant as a function of a constant background field is extracted from Schwinger's "proper-time" formalism. It shows an increase, albeit logarithmic, with field strength. Implications of this result for the observed e+e- peaks in heavy ion collisions are discussed.
AB - The fine structure constant as a function of a constant background field is extracted from Schwinger's "proper-time" formalism. It shows an increase, albeit logarithmic, with field strength. Implications of this result for the observed e+e- peaks in heavy ion collisions are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(88)91803-5
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(88)91803-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011509414
VL - 212
SP - 491
EP - 494
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 4
ER -